10 Sources on Kigali and Rwanda

While researching Kigali and Rwanda, I noticed that articles and sources are dominated by the Rwandan Genocide. I found it fairly difficult to search for information about precolonial, colonial, and post-colonial Rwanda. It was very much dominated by the causes and history of the Rwandan Genocide, what happened during it, and the impact on it after the end of it. Thus, my sources are somewhat dominated by those topics. I did find a few sources on precolonial African, and in particular, Rwanda, that seemed very promising. I even found one really interesting article about the new Rwandan vision for the future. That is very pertinent to today because Rwanda is such a rising African superstar.


Below are 10 sources I found that seemed promising when studying Rwanda and Kigali.

Anyidoho, Henry Kwami. Guns over Kigali: The Rwandese Civil War--1994 : (a Personal Account). Accra: Woeli Pub. Services, 1997. Print.

De Lame, Dannielle. "(Im)possible Belgian Mourning for Rwanda." African Studies Review 48.2 (2005): 33-43. Web.

Des Forges, Alison. "Origins of Rwandan Genocide." Journal of African History 46.3 (2005): 550-51. Print.

Gondola, Didier. "The Land beyond the Mists: Essays on Identity and Authority in Precolonial Congo and Rwanda." Africa 81.3 (2011): 506-07. Print.

Kodesh, Neil. "A Decentered Vision of Precolonial East Central Africa." Journal of African History 52.1 (2011): 125-26. Print.

Mirzoeff, Nicholas. "Invisible Again: Rwanda and Representation after Genocide." African Arts 38.3 (2005): 36-39. Print.

Naftalin, Mark. "A New Rwanda?" World Today 67.7: 22-24. Print.

Newbury, D. "Antecedents to Modern Rwanda: The Nyiginya Kingdom." Journal of African History (2006): 145-47. Print.

Prunier, Gérard. The Rwanda Crisis: History of a Genocide. New York: Columbia UP, 1997. Print.

Zorbas, Eugenia. "'Keep Out of Our Affairs': How Kigali Manages Relations with Its Top Five Donors." International Studies Association (2007): 1-13. Print.